Carnegie Mellon Professor Elected President of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics

Irene Fonseca, the Mellon College of Science Professor of Mathematics at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, was elected president of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). The international organization has 13,000 individual members and 500 institutional members. She is only the second women to be elected president of SIAM. She will serve a one-year term as president-elect and a two-year term as president.

A native of Portugal, Dr. Fonseca holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Minnesota. She joined the faculty at Carnegie Mellon in 1987.